| Living in the shadows of quasi-legality, abandonware, programs once commercially sold now absent from store shelves, are popular on the Net. |
| Abandonware justifies itself by preserving gaming history in a 'living' way. |
| Everything has to be absolutely above-board, so emulators and even abandonware are out of the question, alas. |
| Filling the ranks of Abandonware are classic games that everyone played, so companies made a mint off them, but weren't released for copyright-free distribution. |
| There are many warez sites which want to hide behind the cover of abandonware. |
| A few examples are Abandonware, MP3 downloads, warez and their kind. |
